[Tutor] when string,join won't work

[Daniel Yoo]

> > Make them strings:
> > 
> > string.join(map(str, sequence))
> > 
> > Read about ``map'' and ``str'' at your friendly neighbourhood library
> > reference guide. (http://www.python.org/doc/)
> 
> yeah, I was just hoping there was a better way.
> 
> one of the reason to use a scripting language is to get away from:
> 
> string foo;
> 
> foo = 'hello';
> 
> kind of code.  Python requiring me to know that the sequence is 100%
> strings is kind of silly in my book.


True, but it's not so bad if you write a function that does the string
conversion implicitely:

###
def myStrJoin(L):
    return string.join(map(str, L))
###

is a one shot thing, so it's not too bad.  If something doesn't work, make
it work.  *grin*